Thousand Years Quotes

The key to ministry in any and every context, both now and for the last two thousand years, is missionary flexibility.

No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

We've more important studies than your fantasies and fears You know that rock's been perched up there for a hundred thousand years.

The ecclesiastical system of Rome, and particularly its leaders, for a thousand years and more thought that the earth is fixed and that everything else revolves about it.

Men ran after and ate horses for four hundred thousand years. The outcome is more than a love of horse flesh; it is a runner's body.

One Galileo in two thousand years is enough.

Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.

You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.

Mankind has had ten-thousand years of experience at fighting and if we must fight, we have no excuse for not fighting well.

Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.

Do you think we care about the feelings of Native Americans when we celebrate Columbus Day? That's the day that the white man discovered a land where Indians had been living for a few thousand years.

Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.

Two thousand years ago, five thousand, they didn't have a word for imagination, and faith was the best they could come up with for a pretty solemn bunch of followers.

No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.

Five thousand years have added no improvement to the hive of the bee, nor to the house of the beaver; but look at the habitations and the achievements of men!

I would prefer every [American] state keep the definition of marriage that's prevailed in Western civilization for a couple thousand years.

What was invented two thousand years ago was the spirit of Christianity.

The end of all things is at hand; that Satan's kingdom will be destroyed, and Satan chained down for a thousand years, and Christ's kingdom established upon earth.

God's people should plan for a voyage of a thousand years, but be prepared to abandon ship tonight.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit of him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson it has never learned ... .

A fool may scrawl on a slate and if no one has the wit to wipe it clean for a thousand years, the scrawl becomes the wisdom of ages.

For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the dictionary.

Battles that last five minutes spawn legends that live a thousand years.

"I am not an American of JEWISH faith. I am a JEW. I have been a JEW for a thousand years. Hitler was right in one thing. He calls the Jewish people a race, and we are a race."

We're one of the last handmade art forms. There's no fast way to make plays. It takes just as long and is just as hard as it was a thousand years ago.

The definition of art has changed almost every day since the first artist created the first work at least fifty thousand years ago.

Man's principle trait is a readiness to believe anything. Otherwise, how could the Church have survived for almost two thousand years in the absense of universal gullibility?

And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.

I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

A soup like this is not the work of one man. It is the result of a constantly refined tradition. There are nearly a thousand years of history in this soup.

Mr. Rihani, we met once a thousand years ago and we may not meet again for another thousand years.

If you wish to see the thousand years, look at today; if you wish to understand the millionfold, then look at the one or the two.

The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it was built to last for at least a thousand years.

With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.

Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years.

At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men

You simply cannot make more (reefs), unless you have a few thousand years to wait.

I'll see you again in a thousand years.

Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live.

As Plato insisted two thousand years ago, it is not by means of the image that moral, ethical, or political knowledge is produced.

Twenty thousand years ago the family was the social unit. Now the social unit has become the world, in which it may truthfully be said that each person's welfare affects that of every other.

I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess - and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand years. The permissive society is the free society.

The "terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.

In a moment we lost our minds hereand lay our spirits down.Today we lived a thousand years,all we have is now.

The Persian's mind, like his illuminated manuscripts, does not deal in perspective: two thousand years, if he happens to know anything about them, are as exciting as the day before yesterday.

One moment, ten thousand years. Ten thousand years, one moment.

It seems that England's royal family is running out of money. They are down to just $1.6 million. Well sure, that's what happens when nobody in your family has had a job for the last thousand years.

Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.

You’re not going to cry, are you? - I am not going to cry! Not over you. Not in a thousand years.

I felt ten years old and a thousand years old, but I didn't know how to be my own age. I had never felt that way before, but now I feel like that a lot.